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Author Hasso, Frances Susan.

Title Consuming desires : family crisis and the state in the Middle East / Frances S. Hasso
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages)
Contents Legal governmentality and the national family -- National families in "crisis" -- Transnational "invasions" and emerging selves and desires -- Improving the national family
Summary Consuming Desires examines new forms of marriage emerging in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates in reaction, in part, to the governments' increasing attempts to control sexuality with shari'a law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Marriage -- Egypt
Marriage -- United Arab Emirates
Man-woman relationships -- Egypt
Man-woman relationships -- United Arab Emirates
Family policy -- Egypt
Family policy -- United Arab Emirates
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
Family policy
Man-woman relationships
Marriage
RELIGION / Islam / Law
Egypt
United Arab Emirates
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010030287
ISBN 9780804776400
0804776407